http://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChangesLinked/Eldest&feed=atom&target=EldestTolkien Gateway - Changes related to "Eldest" [en]2015-08-02T21:52:18ZRelated changesMediaWiki 1.17.0http://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Middle-earth&diff=275901&oldid=prevMiddle-earth2015-08-01T14:26:54Z<p><span class="autocomment">Middle-earth and the Old World: </span> Corected typo: &quot;latitide&quot; -&gt; latitude&quot;</p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Tolkien envisioned his stories to take place on our world, in an imaginary historical period and contains the essentials of the northwestern Europe. He did not see his stories to happen on a &quot;remote globe in 'space'&quot; as was the case with other contemporary fiction.&lt;ref&gt;{{L|183}}&lt;/ref&gt;</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Tolkien envisioned his stories to take place on our world, in an imaginary historical period and contains the essentials of the northwestern Europe. He did not see his stories to happen on a &quot;remote globe in 'space'&quot; as was the case with other contemporary fiction.&lt;ref&gt;{{L|183}}&lt;/ref&gt;</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>&minus;</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>As for the later legendarium, [[The Shire]] not only was conceptually based on rural England&lt;ref&gt;{{L|190}}&lt;/ref&gt; but also was expressly stated to be &quot;in this region&quot;&lt;ref name=L211&gt;{{L|211}}&lt;/ref&gt;, &quot;the North-West of the [[Wikipedia:Old World|Old World]], east of the Sea&quot;.&lt;ref&gt;{{FR|Prologue}}&lt;/ref&gt; Concerning the Shire, Tolkien stated that he intended it to correspond about to the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">latitide </del>of [[Oxford]], which would result to other Middle-earth locations to correspond (but not necessarily equate with) real-life locations. For instance, [[Pelargir]] would fall to about the latitude of ancient [[Wikipedia:Troy|Troy]].&lt;ref&gt;{{L|294}}&lt;/ref&gt; This enabled [[Andreas Moehn]] to make more correspondences, and even project the [[Westlands]] on a real map of Europe.&lt;ref&gt;{{webcite|website=Lalaith|articleurl=http://lalaith.vpsurf.de/Tolkien/Grid.html|articlename=A Meridional Grid on the Middle-Earth Map|author=[[Andreas Moehn]]}}&lt;/ref&gt;</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>As for the later legendarium, [[The Shire]] not only was conceptually based on rural England&lt;ref&gt;{{L|190}}&lt;/ref&gt; but also was expressly stated to be &quot;in this region&quot;&lt;ref name=L211&gt;{{L|211}}&lt;/ref&gt;, &quot;the North-West of the [[Wikipedia:Old World|Old World]], east of the Sea&quot;.&lt;ref&gt;{{FR|Prologue}}&lt;/ref&gt; Concerning the Shire, Tolkien stated that he intended it to correspond about to the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">latitude </ins>of [[Oxford]], which would result to other Middle-earth locations to correspond (but not necessarily equate with) real-life locations. For instance, [[Pelargir]] would fall to about the latitude of ancient [[Wikipedia:Troy|Troy]].&lt;ref&gt;{{L|294}}&lt;/ref&gt; This enabled [[Andreas Moehn]] to make more correspondences, and even project the [[Westlands]] on a real map of Europe.&lt;ref&gt;{{webcite|website=Lalaith|articleurl=http://lalaith.vpsurf.de/Tolkien/Grid.html|articlename=A Meridional Grid on the Middle-Earth Map|author=[[Andreas Moehn]]}}&lt;/ref&gt;</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>On the other hand, Tolkien designed his maps to accomodate the mythology, and was conscious that they did not fit the ancient Earth, as understood by contemporary archeology and historical geology.&lt;ref&gt;{{L|169}}&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref name=L211/&gt;</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>On the other hand, Tolkien designed his maps to accomodate the mythology, and was conscious that they did not fit the ancient Earth, as understood by contemporary archeology and historical geology.&lt;ref&gt;{{L|169}}&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref name=L211/&gt;</div></td></tr>
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